It’s because this attempted neutral stance of “equal treatment” from NPR (and Politifact earlier) is massively benefiting Trump. People won’t absorb the nuances between Harris’ statements “lacking in context” and Trump’s outright outrageous lies, they’ll barely even read the article at best. So the effect is only a perpetuation of the sentiment “well, it looks like both sides lie so they’re equally bad” which plays right into Trump’s hands.
Did you even read the article? NPR also published the same format about Trump’s convention speech which covered 162 false and misleading statements and is linked in the beginning of this article. Also, if you read the content of this piece, most of the explanations just make Trump look bad.
Yeah. It sure is great watching Democrats turn against the most benign, inoffensive, and liberal-friendly news channel in the country because they attempted the most basic level of neutral journalistic rigor (and even had to explain in their article the concept of neutral journalistic rigor).
Makes me super-optimistic for the future of democracy.
I can’t wait for Democrats to accuse NPR of being Russian assets.
Wow NPR is being down voted…
It’s because this attempted neutral stance of “equal treatment” from NPR (and Politifact earlier) is massively benefiting Trump. People won’t absorb the nuances between Harris’ statements “lacking in context” and Trump’s outright outrageous lies, they’ll barely even read the article at best. So the effect is only a perpetuation of the sentiment “well, it looks like both sides lie so they’re equally bad” which plays right into Trump’s hands.
Did you even read the article? NPR also published the same format about Trump’s convention speech which covered 162 false and misleading statements and is linked in the beginning of this article. Also, if you read the content of this piece, most of the explanations just make Trump look bad.
Yeah. It sure is great watching Democrats turn against the most benign, inoffensive, and liberal-friendly news channel in the country because they attempted the most basic level of neutral journalistic rigor (and even had to explain in their article the concept of neutral journalistic rigor).
Makes me super-optimistic for the future of democracy.
I can’t wait for Democrats to accuse NPR of being Russian assets.